Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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the horrors Of her convict leasessys tenn.
THE June record shows the largest fire
loss of any June on record, excepting
June, 1877, the month Of the great fire ct
ST. John, New Brunswick. The total is
$40, 1872, 100, against 50, $50 600 for June,
1856, and larger than the average Of june
fires for the ten years previous to 1886 by
nearly $4,000, GEO.
The latest news from Stanley, the AT
rican explorer, is that he is on a journey
from Leopoldville to Lonkolela. He en-
countered and had to overcome serious
obstacles. Oae of thegravest dif1eal4ics-
was tosreplenish his rommissary.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has purchased
$50, 600 residence in Washington. He
will be next door neighbor to Congress-
man s. S. Cox
SECRETARY WHITNEY has sold his
Grasslands state of one hundred acres
at Tenallytown, D. c., which cost him
two years ago $780, for SIP, 500, retain
ing lease of it for two years, with the
privilege of three.
The recent reports from Washington
that Eastern Colorado was sufferin & from
drought and that homesteaders were
compelled to leave in arch of food, is
without foundation. That section of
country has lately had two, and some
times three, heavy rains each week, and
crops and stock are doing well.
The President, accompanied by Secre-
tary Whitney, Colonel Lamont and sew
eral others, went yachting down the
Potomac on the 9th.
The sloop Mystery, with party of ex-
cursionists on board was capslz d off Bar
rem Island, N Y, on the 10th, and twenty
seven lives are supposed to have been
lost. f \
RECEIVER MCNULTA Of the Wabash
railway has decided to ignore section.
four of the Interstate Commerce act
and to take his chances with the COM
mission. is #l
KANMoTUBLY, a wealthy Choctaw In
dian, Is reported to have been murdered Il
for his money near Atoka, l. T.
JOHN WILLIAM RAMSEY, Baron Ramsev,
and Earl of Dalhousie, died on the 9th,
aged eight years. s@ t&
QUEEN VICTORIA, on the oh, reviewed
60, 900 royal troops at Aldershot and de-
llvered an address to the men.
The Episcopal Church at Zenia, O.. re
Gently wrecked by a cyclone, was struck
by lightning duI ing a storm on the oh,
and was totally destroyed by the result
ing fire, together with several adjoining
buildings; loss, $4,000
MoTHER MARY JOSEPHINE DEvERRAUx,
of the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy at
Newburgh, N. Y, died on the night of
Sth from injuries received by--falling
down stairs, She was sixty years old.
GENERAL BoULANGER continues to be
the popular idol in France. He was warm
ly welcomed on his arrival at Clermont-
Ferrand, the headquarters of his corps
ANDREW CARNEGIE laid the foundation
stone of the new free library building in
Edin burgh on the OH. M. Blaine was
present and made an address
THE Collie Club Of Ameri'a gives its
first annual sheep trials at Washin gton,
Pa, September Is and 16. Entries close
August go
Phil CASEY. of Brooklyn, champion
hand ball player of America, sails this
week for Ireland to meet John Lawlor,
champion of Ireland on August for 81
0J0 side and the championship OF the
world.
GEORGE CoCKRELL was convicted in the
Supreme Court at Coowees, |. T., on the
9th of the murder of Charley Hendricks,
a Cherokee Indian. and was sentenced TO
the peniten tiary at T lequah for ten years.
DR.. Nc GLYNN's accommodation was
not read in the New York Catholic
churches as expected.
SLIGHT earthquake trem ors were felt at
different points in Lower South Carolina
on the afternoon of the 10th. .
ROBERT HARTLEY and Mrs. Lelvelle
were drowned in the Delaware at Phlla-
delphia on the 10th. A party OF ten were
outin small boat which capsized. The
others were rescued.
AT Clifton, O., on the 9th, 10000
drinking fountain, presented to the VII
lage by Mr.. Henry Probasco, the mayor,
now absent in Europe, was unvailed with
a appropriate ceremony and was received
by Richard Smith,
In view of Sir Henry Drum mond VOLTS
extended stay at Constantin nople, En-
gland has allowed the Sultan five days
more time in which to ratify the conyen-
ton in regard to Egypt. NgR
QUEEN KAP IOLANI arrived at New York
on the 11th on her way home III MM
ALL men on furlough in South Russia
have been ordered to rejoin their colors.
Hone d. the Chinainan who killed
Mrs. Billou six months ago, was taken
from Jail at Colusa, Cal, on the 11th, by
a mob, and lynched. The death sentence
had been committed.
THE issue Of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
July 9, was 1896, ,4S4; same period last
year $576, 1SS,
JACK DEMPSEY knocked out Frank
Nevitt in three rounds at Bay Point, on
Maumee bay, on the 11th. Nevitts nose
was broken and Dempsey's arm was
in the operations.
THREE jockeys were ser euslv injured IN
collision on the Brighton Beach track
on the 11th. One of them, Harris, died
from the effects of his injuries.
MGR PERsICo, the, Pore's special envoy,
visited many Of the Dublin churches on
the 10th. He was recognized, and con-
ferred blessing on the congregation.
A CASE from Washington Territory, in
which Widow Stahl complained OF over
charges under the lnterS State Commerce
law, has been satisfa C ,orily adjusted.
A DEpUTATioN Of English ladies present
ed an address to Mrs. Sullivan, wife OF,
the Lord Mayor of Dublin. on the sllth,
asking her to assist iii an agitation Tor
the repeal of the Coercion Jaw.
BERNARD HAMILL's yarn mill at Ger
mantown, Pa, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss. $780, DO; partially
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